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Metabase Up and Running

By : Tim Abraham
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Metabase Up and Running

By: Tim Abraham

Overview of this book

Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that helps you use data to answer questions about your business. This book will give you a detailed introduction to using Metabase in your organization to get the most value from your data. You’ll start by installing and setting up Metabase on your local computer. You’ll then progress to handling the administration aspect of Metabase by learning how to configure and deploy Metabase, manage accounts, and execute administrative tasks such as adding users and creating permissions and metadata. Complete with examples and detailed instructions, this book shows you how to create different visualizations, charts, and dashboards to gain insights from your data. As you advance, you’ll learn how to share the results with peers in your organization and cover production-related aspects such as embedding Metabase and auditing performance. Throughout the book, you’ll explore the entire data analytics process—from connecting your data sources, visualizing data, and creating dashboards through to daily reporting. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to implement Metabase as an integral tool in your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
4
Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
12
Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to set up our Metabase instance and invite others to join. We picked out an attractive subdomain to host our app, and configured Metabase to send emails through an SMTP server. We learned how to make an email alias so that our emails look like they are coming from Metabase and not our personal email addresses. Finally, we started inviting users to join our instance. We learned how to implement Google sign-in and LDAP so that any user in our organization can join without a personal invite.

Next, we finally get to the data part. In the next chapter, we'll be learning about all the databases you can connect Metabase to. If you have your own database that you've been anxious to start exploring with Metabase, you will finally get to in the next chapter. For those of you without a database, don't worry. In the next chapter, I'll be sharing a dataset and giving instructions so that you can learn how to create your own PostgreSQL...